GRE Word List
CONSANGUINITY
the quality or state of being consanguineous
The meaning of the word consanguinity is the quality or state of being consanguineous.
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| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| slovenly | untidy especially in personal appearance |
| adversary | one that contends with, opposes, or resists : an enemy or opponent |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |